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| #### #### But why does not one same soul enter more than one body? Because any second body must approach, if it might; but the first has approached and received and keeps. #### Are we to think that this second body, in keeping its soul with a like care, is keeping the same soul as the first? #### Why not: what difference is there? Merely some additions [from the experiences of life, none in the soul itself]. #### We ask further why one soul in foot and hand and not one soul in the distinct members of the universe. #### Sensations no doubt differ from soul to soul but only as do the conditions and experiences; this is difference not in the judging principle but in the matters coming to judgement; the judge is one and the same soul pronouncing upon various events, and these not its own but belonging to a particular body; it is only as a man pronounces simultaneously upon a pleasant sensation in his finger and a pain in his head. #### But why is not the soul in one man aware, then, of the judgement passed by another? #### Because it is a judgement made, not a state set up; besides, the soul that has passed the judgement does not pronounce but simply judges: similarly a man's sight does not report to his hearing, though both have passed judgement; it is the reason above both that reports, and this is a principle distinct from either. Often, as it happens, reason does become aware of a verdict formed in another reason and takes to itself an alien experience: but this has been dealt with elsewhere. ####  |